Blu-ray Review: Trainspotting
“I chose not to choose life. I chose to choose something else,” says the film’s narrator and main character, a twenty-something Edinburgh man named Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), near the beginning of Trainspotting. From the start, it’s clear that this Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) directed film is a dark and gritty struggle. In […]
Blu-ray Review: Naked
Like other films by British writer-director Mike Leigh—Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Vera Drake (2004)—Naked is a tough, unflinching look at class conflict, sexual insecurity, and identity crisis in working class England. Naked is by no means an easy thing to watch. At the center of it all, is a young man […]